Spokeo.com - RSS meets social networks?

I'm amazed how much time some people I know put into browsing the latest social networks. But when school ends and work begins, priorities change. Young working people are BUSY. We need tools to streamline our online activities so we are not aimlessly bouncing from one myspace profile to the next.

I'll be honest...I signed up for myspace after much reluctance because I needed an establish an online social identity. Friendster has long ago passed out of favor and Facebook was up until very recently a restricted, college network. I had to sign up for McSocial aka myspace to keep my online life relevant.

Just as fast as I was up and running on myspace with 100+ "friends", I was working away as a big bad consultant. I spent my days at clients' offices which means that 1) It's very risky to go on a social networking site and 2) the client has a firewall that returns the friendly message in size 48 red font when trying to visit any of the social networking flavor of the week sites:

THIS WEBSITE IS BLOCKED (TYPE: DATING)

That meant that all my social networking when at work was reduced to IM conversations with people on "the outside" telling me about pictures, blogs, etc which I would ultimately forget to check when I got home hours later. And if I did remember to check, there are too many people to keep track of!

Enter Spokeo. Spokeo has in a way taken Facebook newsfeeds to a global level. It does not give the minuscule details that Facebook does but it does allow me to get the latest and (maybe not) the greatest going on with many of my friends' blogs, social identities, pictures, videos and etc. Just like I use my RSS reader to keep track of the overwhelming amount of news, Spokeo keeps track of the overwhelming amount of irrelevant, ridiculous, why do I waste my time of this kinda crap information in "social news"

So what do I think of Spokeo? I think it is a great idea but it is missing some key pieces.

• Facebook: This network is now open to all and becoming increasingly more relevant. Still my favorite over mycrap...I mean myspace.
• Infinite scrolling: Why do I want to hit next page when I am scrolling through updates? Just like Google Reader has this, Spokeo should too!
• A screencast? This is kinda a new idea and it wouldn't hurt for a little more hand holding.
• More irrelevant information. While there was an uproar about the newsfeeds on Facebook, I like that it gives me a quick summary of what is going on. Provide this feature across all my networks, blogs, etc.
• Global messaging: Allow me to send and receive all my social networks messages from one location. Don't ask me how to do this, that's your problem to figure out!

Spokeo does a lot of things right. It saves time since it aggregates updates on all my online "friends". It is not yet blocked by the firewall at work. And the search function works much better than the search on Wink.

Personally I won't be using this tool all the time until they add support for Facebook and a bit more granular info about what is going on with my networks but I do think Spokeo is the start of social networking feeds. Keep an eye on this one!